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Hungry black hole may be cosmic 'missing link'
A team of astronomers has found what it says is the best evidence yet for an elusive class of black hole.
They say the presumed "intermediate-mass" black hole betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayward star that ventured too close. These medium-sized objects are a long-sought "missing link" in the evolution of the cosmos. Researchers used two X-ray observatories, along with the Hubble telescope, to identify the object."Intermediate-mass black holes are very elusive objects, and so it is critical to carefully consider and rule out alternative explanations for each candidate, said Dr Dacheng Lin, from the University of New Hampshire in Durham, US, who led the study. -
Arizona doctor believes Vitamin C could be game changer in COVID-19 treatment
Could a common vitamin prove to be a key in helping treat the coronavirus? Some doctors in both China and New York have been using Vitamin C to try to treat their patients.
One Arizona doctor who’s been using this technique for other infections explains why vitamin C might be effective. The key, he says? Absorption through an IV. “When people get sick, the first thing in their body that actually gets depleted is vitamin C,” said Dr. Steven Katz, a naturopathic physician in Scottsdale. Dr. Katz often sees patients with pneumonia or bronchitis. The World Health Organization says coronavirus can lead to things like pneumonia. “I’ve been using Vitamin C for acute and chronic infection patients for a long time,” he said. He said the immune support the vitamin has on a person’s body is incredible. But he said it's more than just your typical Vitamin C pill or chewable gummy. Instead, it’s a very high dose of it through an IV that he said could help save these COVID-19 patients. “The absorption is going to be much higher when you go with an IV because it gets absorbed right away,” he said. -
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Coronavirus could infect privacy and civil liberties forever
From a technological perspective, the coronavirus pandemic is one massive testbed for surveillance capitalism.
More specifically, it's a testbed for new, much more large-scale forms of surveillance. Already, governments in Italy, Germany, Austria, China, South Korea and Taiwan have begun analysing smartphone data so as to determine to what extent populations are really locking themselves down at home. Meanwhile, governments in the UK and the US are very close to rolling out similar surveillance measures, all in the effort to ensure that policies of mass behaviour modification are successful. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.change.org/p/hobby-lobby-employees-hobby-lobby-is-putting-employees-at-risk/
Ohio forced them to shut down yesterday.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
https://www.change.org/p/hobby-lobby-employees-hobby-lobby-is-putting-employees-at-risk/
Ohio forced them to shut down yesterday.
Yeah, Texas asked Ohio for some legal paperwork help and OH, NY, and PA all told TX that they had all filed against Hobby Lobby as they were running a nationwide campaign to stay open despite laws in all those places closing them. So Texas files a copy of Ohio's paperwork today and went on television and directly told Hobby Lobby that they needed to set down what they were working on and walk out the doors immediately.
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Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher. -
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
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@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
LOL, including the president here is just ludicrous. You might love him or hate him - but he's the bloody POTUS, hell yeah he gets all the testing he wants/his medical advisors demand.
Now NBA - yeah screw those guys. All those industries should be slashing all salaries for the year, and helping the world financially.. they'll be back in a year or two at their huge salaries (not something I personally have an issue with - you lot love your sports and prop up the industries that pay those people huge dollars).
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@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
LOL, including the president here is just ludicrous. You might love him or hate him - but he's the bloody POTUS, hell yeah he gets all the testing he wants/his medical advisors demand.
Now NBA - yeah screw those guys. All those industries should be slashing all salaries for the year, and helping the world financially.. they'll be back in a year or two at their huge salaries (not something I personally have an issue with - you lot love your sports and prop up the industries that pay those people huge dollars).
I feel like he means the NBA president?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Grey said in Non-IT News Thread:
@Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Coronavirus: Confirmed global cases pass one million
More than a million cases of coronavirus have been registered globally, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University - another grim milestone as the world grapples with the spreading pandemic.
Nearly 53,000 people have died and more than 210,000 have recovered, according to the US university's figures. The US has the most cases, and more than 1,000 died there in the past day. The disease, Covid-19, first emerged in central China three months ago. Though the tally kept by Johns Hopkins records one million confirmed cases, the actual number is thought to be much higher.Obviously our lack of testing doesn't give us the real infection numbers, easily could be double that million, but if it is really only 1 million infected, 53K people dead - damn, that death toll is much higher than the 3% I heard about before.
The president and NBA players get unlimited tests. It just depends on how rich you are to get tested.
LOL, including the president here is just ludicrous. You might love him or hate him - but he's the bloody POTUS, hell yeah he gets all the testing he wants/his medical advisors demand.
Now NBA - yeah screw those guys. All those industries should be slashing all salaries for the year, and helping the world financially.. they'll be back in a year or two at their huge salaries (not something I personally have an issue with - you lot love your sports and prop up the industries that pay those people huge dollars).
I feel like he means the NBA president?
Actually - that wouldn't matter in the of my comment - all those rich folks buying their way into testing - which of course is generally likely useless - at least until it comes back positive... because just because you test negative now, doesn't mean you won't be exposed 20 mins after the sample was taken.
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Coronavirus: US set to recommend wearing of masks
The White House is expected to advise Americans in coronavirus hotspots to wear cloth masks or scarves in public to help stop the virus spread.
President Donald Trump said such an advisory would not be mandatory. Residents of New York, the epicentre of the US outbreak, have already been urged to cover their faces in public. Top health official Dr Anthony Fauci has said he believed all states should issue stay-at-home orders, as the US death toll passed 6,000. "I don't understand why that's not happening," Dr Fauci told CNN late on Thursday. "If you look at what's going on in this country, I just don't understand why we're not doing that." "You've got to put your foot on the accelerator to bring that number down," he added, referring to infection and death rates. -
Coronavirus: Europe's care homes struggle as deaths rise
As nursing and care homes across Europe battle to stop the spread of Covid-19 among the elderly, France has revealed 1,416 residents have succumbed to the virus since the epidemic began.
Alarming cases have emerged in the Spanish capital Madrid, with reports of dozens of deaths in two nursing homes. Residents were taken to hospital in the Italian city of Naples after a care home outbreak claimed several lives. Cases have also been reported in 100 care homes around the Swedish capital. Although authorities in the Stockholm region have not given figures, public broadcaster SVT says more than 400 people have been infected and about 50 have died. -
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@black3dynamite said in Non-IT News Thread:
Damn
Johnson & Johnson announced a similar thing. They have a likely vaccine candidate going into testing. But instead of producing it in quantity after testing, they are ramping up production it now in case it proves viable.
Large monetary risk, that I am surprised they are able to get done as a publicly traded company.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/03/americas/venezuela-navy-cruise-liner-incident-intl/index.html
This is just hilarious.
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Coronavirus: Spanish deaths fall for fourth consecutive day
The daily number of coronavirus deaths has fallen in Spain for a fourth consecutive day, boosting hopes the country has passed the outbreak's peak.
Monday's increase of 637 deaths means 13,055 have died in total. The nation has more than 135,000 confirmed cases, the most in Europe, but new infections have been slowing. In Italy, the number of new infections fell by 1,031 to 1,941 on Monday, but the death toll rose to 636 - more than 100 higher than the previous day. Slowing infection rates in a number of European countries are raising hope that strict social distancing measures are curbing the spread of Covid-19 - the disease caused by the virus. On Monday, Austria's chancellor announced plans to start easing some of the restrictions in place because of the pandemic.
